Research Handbook on Law and Courts

CONTENIDO

Contents:

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Courts
Susan Sterett and Lee Walker

PART I COURTS AND POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY
1. International Tribunals and Political Accountability
James Meernik

2. Degrees of Separation: judicial-executive relations in the US and Latin America
Gbemende Johnson

3. Comparing the Significance of War to High Courts of the USA, UK, and Canada
Susanne Schorpp

4. Drug Policy, Violence, and Support for the Judiciary in Latin America: The “Drug Trafficking Trap”
Aldo F. Ponce

5. Law, Courts and Populism: Climate Change Litigation and the Narrative Turn
Chris Hilson

6. Courts and Transformative Constitutionalism: insights from South Africa
Anthony Diala

PART II JUDICIAL PROCESS
7. Independence in Judicial Hierarchies: Civil Law Systems
Julio Rios-Figueroa

8. The Use of Precedent in U.S. Supreme Court Litigant Briefs
Jessica A. Schoeneherr and Ryan C. Black

9. Challenging authorities’ (in)action via amparos
Lydia Brashear Tiede and Susan Achury

10. Accountability, Authority and Documentary Fragility: Shadow files and Trial in India
Mayur Suresh

11. Court Architecture and the Justice System
Peter Robson, Patrícia Branco and Johnny Rodger

12. Institutional Norms, Parliament, and the Courts: Explaining the Absence of Abortion Restrictions in Canada
Jonathan Parent

PART III DIVERSITY
13. Gender on the International Bench
Laura P. Moyer

14. Appointing Women to High Courts
Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra, Alice J. Kang, and Mikki Caul Kittilson

15. Judicial Service Commissions and the Appointment of Women to High Courts in Nigeria and Zambia
Jarpa J. Dawuni and Tabeth Masengu

16. Judicial Diversity in the United States Federal Judiciary
Taneshia N. Means, Kaitlin Prado, and Andrew Eslich

17. The gender and judging project: equity in Germany
Ulrike Schultz

PART IV SUB-NATIONAL COURTS
18. Power, activation, decision making, and impact: subnational judicial politics in Brazil
Luciano Da Ros and Matthew C. Ingram

19. Understanding the determinants of opinion language borrowing in state courts in the United States
Jennifer Bowie and Elisha C. Savchak

20. State High Courts and Precedent: the diffusion of precedent in the United States
Ben Kassow

21. Letting the Outside In? Court Clerks, Discretion and the Shifting Boundary between Community and Court in Domestic Violence Cases in South Africa
Kelley Moult

22. When do the Losers Win? Appellate Court Reversals of Civil Jury Verdicts
Tao Dumas

23. Creating Space for supranational law: Environmental Legal Mobilization and Spanish NGOs
Luz Muñoz and David Moya

PART V COURTS, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING
24. Patrolling the Boundaries of Belonging? Courts, Law, and Citizenship
Lisa Conant, Andreas Hofmann, Dagmar Soennecken, and Lisa Vanhala

25. Conflicts in Indigenous Law: Courts and Federalism in the United States and Common Law Nations
Rebecca A. Reid and Todd A. Curry

26. Implicit and explicit boundaries of belonging: indigenous and minority identities
Kati Nieminen

27. Domestic legal institutions and international law: the UN Women’s Rights Treaty and the Netherlands
Audrey L. Comstock

PART VI DIGITALIZATION OF LAW AND COURTS RESEARCH
28. Creating Digital Legal Subjects: The Use of Online Criminal Court Records for Research
Sarah E. Lageson

29. All Your Data Will Be Held Against You: Secondary Use of Data from Personal Genomics & Wearable Tech
Andelka M. Phillips

30. Data Infrastructure Innovation in the Field of Law and Courts: The European Court of Human Rights Database (ECHRdb)
Elizabeth Chrun and Rachel Cichowski

31. ‘Text as Data’ in Law and Courts: Data Coding, Language Clarity, and Data Sharing
Justin Wedeking

32. Creating Databases in Sociolegal Research: The U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Database
Paul M. Collins, Jr. and Lori A. Ringhand

Index

Contributors:

S. Achury, R.C. Black, J. Bowie, P. Branco, E. Chrun, R.Cichowski, P.M. Collins, A.L. Comstock, L. Conant, T.A. Curry, L. Da Ros, J.J. Dawuni, A. Diala, T.L. Dumas, M.C. Escobar-Lemmon, C. Hilson, V. Hoekstra, A. Hofmann, M. Ingram, G. Johnson, A.J. Kang, B.J. Kassow, M.C. Kittilson, T. Masengu, T.N. Means, J. Meernik, K. Moult, D. Moya, L. Moyer, L. Muñoz, K. Nieminen, J. Parent, A.M. Phillips, A.F. Ponce, K. Prado, R.A. Reid, L.A. Ringhand, J. Ríos-Figueroa, P. Robson, J. Rodger, E.C. Savchak, J.A. Schoenherr, S. Schorpp, U. Schultz, D. Soennecken, S.M. Sterett, M. Suresh, L. Tiede, L. Vanhala, L.D. Walker, J. Wedeking